Hans Böhme (born June 16, 1905 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ; died there in 1982 ) was a German landscape painter , etcher and draftsman .

Hans Böhme studied from 1924 to 1928 at the Dresden Art Academy with Ferdinand Dorsch and Max Feldbauer , and in the winter semester of 1928 he moved to the Munich Art Academy with Angelo Jank . [1] After graduating, he worked as a freelance painter in Rothenburg.

In 1943 he was awarded the Albrecht Dürer Prize by the city of Nuremberg . [2] From 1937 to 1944 he was regularly represented with numerous works at the National Socialist propaganda shows " Great German Art Exhibition " in the House of German Art in Munich. Several of the works shown there were created through his service in a propaganda company as a front painter, including In the Glowing Dust of the Don Steppe (1943) and In the Steel Thunderstorm (1944). Both paintings were bought by Adolf Hitler . Joseph Goebbels bought the work From the Battle of Kiev (1942) .. [3]

Hans Böhme used a wide variety of techniques, so there are frescoes and sgraffiti , landscapes, cityscapes and portraits that are linked to his hometown of Rothenburg.